# Project Properties

A project is defined by its properties (fields) and its associated project components.

Project Fields:

- Company:
  Is the organization that pays the project expenses.
  There is a predefined company "Internal" that can be used for projects without a paying company.
- Project Leader:
  The person responsible for the execution and the tecnical success of the project.
- Project Supervisor:
  The person responsible for the financial success of the project.
- Project Type:
  Allows to determine the type of services requested by the company. The list of project types can be customized for each company.
- Project Status:
  Allows to follow-up on the development of a project through several phases of the project lifecycle.
- Source Language (Project/Translation only): Source language of a translation project
- Target Languages (Project/Translation only): Target languages (multiples!) of a translation project
- Subject Area (Project/Translation only): Type of language applied in the translation project
- Start Date:
  Date of official launch of the project.
- End Date:
  Deadline for the termination of the project.
- Budget:
  Estimated total cost of the project
- Parent Project:
  Allows to create a hierarchy of projects. All costs and revenues of this project are summed up by the parent project.
- Description:
  Free-text description of the purpose of the project.
- Note:
  Free-text instructions for all project members.

Project Components:

Project components contain additional information about a project. The available project components depend on the type of the project. Predefined project components include:

- Filestorage
- Translation Workflow
- Project Collaboration